San Francisco Examiner Now Owned Anti-Gay Activist Philip Anschutz!!

DENVER BILLIONAIRE PHILIP Anschutz may be the richest man in America you've never heard of, and he plans to keep it that way. Unlike modern-day moguls Marvin Davis and Rupert Murdoch, Anschutz is virtually unknown to the public. While that may be good strategy for someone in oil, railroads and cyber optics--businesses in which he has amassed a fortune estimated at $8.8 billion--last May Anschutz took a bold step into the civic life of Los Angeles with a $500 million proposal to rebuild the Coliseum and bring a National Football League team back to the city. Owning the local football team usually carries with it a level of community responsibility and responsiveness. But as Mayor Riordan and city councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas cheered, Anschutz remained invisible, a secretive and enigmatic figure in the city where he had come to do business.
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Anschutz, chairman of Qwest Communications International (nyse: Q) and multibillionaire, is rapidly becoming a movie theater mogul. But the title "movie theater mogul" has about as much prestige as "king of an anthill."


After acquiring United Artists Theaters in September 2000 and Tennessee theater chain, Regal Cinemas, Anschutz has most recently set his sights on California theater chain Edwards Cinemas. Edwards Cinemas couldn't confirm Anschutz' interest, but spokeswoman Anita-Marie Hill says the company has narrowed its search for investors down to a single investor, and any definitive announcement will come out of the bankruptcy court.

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The Hollywood press corps believes it has figured out Anschutz' motives. Several writers have opined that because Anschutz contributed money to an anti-gay ballot issue in Colorado nine years ago, he's buying up movie theaters to control the content of Hollywood films. Anschutz wants to prevent sex, violence and alternative lifestyles from further polluting America's minds.

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He is a reclusive American billionaire reputed to have a gift for saving lost causes. When 62-year-old Philip Anschutz signalled he was interested in turning the apparently cursed Millennium Dome into a glittering pop and sports venue, it seemed the perfect solution to an embarrassing government problem.
Last month Ministers thought they had washed their hands of New Labour's great white elephant when the Government gave a consortium led by the US tycoon the Dome and 190 acres of surrounding land for nothing.

But an investigation into Anschutz's financial and right-wing political activities, which include bankrolling an extreme US anti-gay group, suggest any ministerial hope that the damaging saga of the Dome has ended is likely to prove premature.

The Observer can reveal that the US financial authorities have launched a major investigation into Anschutz's main American business, Qwest Communications.

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